Before becoming a technology journalist, she worked at the
Associated Press. Looking to get away from the negative aspects covering of
hard news, she moved to California and took a job at
MacHome Journal, where she said she discovered that she had always been a
geek. She worked at
CNET from 2000 to 2013, first as an editor. She later co-hosted the
Buzz Out Loud podcast, "The Buzz Report", a web-based news show, and
Always On, a talk show. The following year, Wood became a tech correspondent and backup host for the US
public radio program
Marketplace and its various spinoffs. There, she co-hosted the
Make Me Smart and
Marketplace Tech podcasts. She left Marketplace in 2021 to join Launch, a venture capital firm, where she was a podcaster and investor. She left in March 2023 to found Molly Wood Media, an "angel investing and startup advisory firm". ==References==